The Cat Thread

This is not my cat. Followed me home from Peckham Hill Street and is now meowing to come in. Big fluffy friendly thing, but not my cat. Z

Sounds like you're now it's chosen owner though...

Stronghold really is shit. My cats are both jumping with bugs after hot couple weeks. Have read that cider vinegar will help as natural remedy... anyone tried this?

We've just used Advantage spot on with ours and it's been much more effective than other flea treatments we tried before.

Will look it up ta.

The problem is fleas becoming immune to certain active ingredients. So you need to find one that your particular fleas are vulnerable to.

Yeah, they're not immune to dunking in a bucket of water once on the comb, but it is very time consuming...

+1 to Advantage Spot on.

Cattery recommendations? East London. No car. We're moving out of the city, but going to Canada for a few weeks first.

Cat sitter an option? We found it cheaper than a cattery (and probably nicer for the cat).

That's what we've generally done in the past, but as we're moving we won't have a flat!

Ah fair enough!

Edit: Before we decided on a sitter Mrs Hammer liked the look of this one http://www.ladybirdkennels.co.uk/cattery.html

Move you cat to a friend's instruct them nicely not to leave windows and doors open?

Move you cat to a friend's instruct them nicely not to leave windows and doors open?

That'd be ideal, and we've sent out a request, but everyone seems to be a cat hating asshole.

^^ cheers, missed that edit.

Tell me to mind my own business, but I wonder if @lynx would want to steal some kitty love?

New camera, tested out with cat pics

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Heard a fucking horrendous noise out the back quite close to our garden last night that sounded like a cat fight but then turned into a long, spine tingling scream. I know one of ours is pretty territorial so I was worried that it was her meeting some grisly demise. I convinced myself it was foxes and even looked up "fox fighting noises" on youtube and it sounded pretty close.

I kept shaking the bag of dreamies by the back door and luckily both of ours came trotting through the garden like nothing had happened.

That noise was properly brutal. I have heard foxes dicking about before but it was more annoying than terrifying, this was like someone being murdered.

Just finished a 2 week ride around Scotland at my old uni housemates house.
I lived with them 12years ago when their kitties Othello and Tachikoma were just kittens. Haven't seen them in at least 5 years but the furry little sods appear to still remember me and won't leave me alone.
Didn't think cats had such good memories.

They definitely do. I had a cat from a kitten, my relationship at the time broke up, I walked away from my flat and everything. My Dad took my cat while I sorted myself out, but in the meantime they became quite attached to each other.

I didn't have the heart to take him back so left him with my Dad, over 10 years later he is firmly his cat and doesn't allow anyone else near him, apart from me, I only see him a couple times a year but he 100% remembers me and is all over me when i'm there.

I'm currently trying to train my current owner to use a catflap we recently had installed, problem is over the last two years she has trained us to open the door, so its painful going so far.

Mine have always used a cat flap but will still shout at us to open the door for them if we are anywhere nearby.

If you've fed them int te past, they remember!

My parents have two cats with whom I've never lived (having moved out way before they arrived). They leg it when visitors arrive but give me buckets of love and affection. I guess we bonded when I visited when they were kittens.

If you're near enough to Leyton I can say for sure that the people at Midland Vets on Leyton High Rd are good hearted people and I think they've got a cat hotel.

Cheers, and that's quite close. Will look into it.